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Last winter, Sweden was blasted by the first storm in recorded history to ever deliver hurricane force winds, devastating the country's valuable fir and pine forests. It's been estimated that 75 million

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The best gift I received this year for Xmas was the ReadyMade book: How to Make {Almost} Everything: A Do-It-Yourself Primer. Thanks to my generous sister, I now hold the secrets to creating chandeliers

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If you've ever dreamt of retrofitting your tiny apartment with an all-in-one space-saving life-changing furniture solution, you have a friend in Andrea Zittel. Currently based in Joshua Tree, CA, Zittel

Well it's December 25 already, so you're either opening presents or ordering Chinese. For those of you partaking in the Christmas revelry, you've already got your tree decked to the nines. But for next

If you ever made model airplanes or cars when you were a kid (and you are over 30 now) - then you might remember Revell kits, the quintessential 50's-era modeling kits where the pieces all came attached